Their career isn't art anymore.

Just in case anyone needed to see this spelled out.

The people making fliers have been replaced by AI prompting overnight.

The people doing contemporary fine art with their audience are unaffected.

> The people doing contemporary fine art with their audience are unaffected.

It's not a particularly well hidden secret that the contemporary fine art is really not about the art or the artist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ3F3zWiEmc

this seems exactly backwards

SD isn't outputting clean graphic designs with sensible content

And haven't there already been people winning contemporary fine art contests with SD? lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/x2n0r1/aig...

> The people making fliers have been replaced by AI prompting overnight.

I haven't seen good examples of that yet but I'm curious how push-button you can make this. Flyers, web design and UI design require the copy, layout, information hierarchy, colours, illustrations, branding etc. to be cohesive so it's a different problem space with way more constraints compared to generating a single image.

If getting the final design requires a lot of rounds of prompting and tweaks, busy people are going to outsource this still (in the hope the prompting and feedback needed to the person doing the work will be less).

A lot of designers are artists that needed an income. Design jobs will likely be dramatically impacted by this.

> The people making fliers have been replaced by AI prompting overnight.

Hmm, no? Do go and try to make a flyer with any of the AI generators. I’m not saying it can’t happen one day, but the current tech is not there.

Its a post about how artists monetize.

That group will never be selling their own work as contemporary fine art but want that prestige, and the one way they had to make table scraps with that skillset is now gone.

A different person is doing their own flyer art with AI and adding words around it themselves, as evidence by my last months worth of fliers that have reached me. Promotion companies have always been up on trendy tools for differentiation.

Flyers are an extremely low bar that AI sails over.

show an example?

I used to draw the flyers when my band played shows. People still went to the shows. If had iterated a few times with one of these models to draw the thing that I wanted to draw rather than deluding myself, and spent 5 minutes polishing it in photoshop, the product would have been orders of magnitude better imo.

So when you say flyers, you're talking about the kind of flyer zero people are employed to make. We're talking about paid artists here.

Art is rarely about the product. Some color on a canvas has been traded for millions, while anyone could just have dropped a bucket of paint to create a similar result.

After checking some 19th century artists I see it failed hard. All of the responses look the same, there isn't enough data in the training set to differentiate actual styles beyond "vaguely realistic".

Just read the "Profession" by Isaak Azimov :)